Barb,

This DSP is in the Icom 7000 I recently purchased just before Christmas.

Phil.
K0NX




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Lombardi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: Another DSP Experience


> Phil what rig were you using? I know that dsp is really great.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Phil Scovell
> Sent: Friday, May 01, 2009 1:06 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Another DSP Experience
>
> So the other night on 40 meters, the thunder storms over the planes were =
> killing the band.  I often listen to a couple of high speed guys for =
> practice because when they are in contact, they normally run 45 to 60 =
> words per minute.  They often hang out on 7032 if you are interested = 
> using
> W4NPX and W6WXZ for call signs.  This particular evening, both the = 
> Florida
> station and the Californian were running strong 10 over S9 = signals but 
> so
> was the peaks from the static crashes.  At high speed CW, = fade, QSB, or
> sudden static, QRN, can take out two or three words so the = louder, the
> better.  I was copying them both fine but the static crashes = were wiping
> out several letters and words at a time.  Just for fun, I = snapped on the
> DSP.  The static crashes were all but gone and I no = longer was missing
> anything as before.  Years ago, when running a 2 = element 40 meter beam 
> at
> 70 feet, summers, beaming east, were killers.  = I soon learned, if I 
> didn't
> want to listen to all those static crashes, = I could beam to the west,
> reducing the static crashing by about 20 DB, = and work western stations
> just fine.  The DSP works, for CW signals at = any rate, way better that I
> thought it would.
>
> Phil.
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>